[Article] How to save Windows Spotlight images for your wallpaper or phone

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Windows Spotlight is a feature in Windows 10 that rotates beautiful images on your lock screen. Have you ever turned on your computer and seen an image you really liked? Did you wonder how to save that image so you could use it for your desktop background?

Fortunately, it is very easy to retrieve these images. In this article I'll show you how.

Instructions:

1. Right-click the Start button and click Run.

2. Copy and paste the following directory, then click OK.

%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

3. The directory where Windows downloads and stores the images will open. So that we can work with the them, select all the files in this folder and copy them to a new folder on your desktop.

4. You'll notice these files don't have an extension to them. We need to add the .jpg extension to these files so that they will open in a photo viewer. To do this quickly, we can use the command line.

In the new folder that you copied the files to, hold the Shift key on your keyboard, right-click in an empty space, and select Open command window here. Alternatively, you can open any command prompt window and then cd to the folder.

***Note: ***Some newer builds of Windows 10 have replaced the command line option with Windows PowerShell. This isn't a problem - when the PowerShell window opens, just type cmd to enter the command line processor.

5. Inside the command prompt window, type *Ren . .jpg and press Enter. This command will rename all files without an extension to ones with the extension .jpg.

5. You'll notice that the command changes the files to the .jpg format. You can see a thumbnail view of the pictures by going to the View tab and selecting Large icons.

That's all there is to it!